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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> Now, about your problem displaying images. I switched my Xvesa to
> 4-bit color and experienced problems (with xli) similar to what you
> have described. I think I may have a solution. Get and install
> http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/netpbm-10.26.7.libc5.tgz. (1.6MB, but
> this method only uses about 200K of stuff from it. You can delete the
> remainder.) Then use this command sequence to convert your image:
>
> jpegtopnm file_name_here.jpg | ppmdither -red 2 -green 2 -blue 2 | \
> ppmtobmp >/tmp/1.bmp
> xli /tmp/1.bmp
I vaguely recall also having poor quality jpegs with xli, before I 
switched to zgv and xv.  Have you tried xv?
> Did you try very low resolution, high color depth combinations in
> /etc/Xconfig? e.g. 320x240x16 or 640x480x16? If you still want a large
> Xserver, I suggest looking through here:
> http://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.6.0/binaries/Linux-ix86-libc5/
>
> They have libc5 binaries for several new versions of X. Large
> packages, but you should be able to delete what you don't need.

Good find!

libc5 xbin.tgz for 4.6.0 is 6MB, for 4.0.1 3.3MB.
3.3.6, which should handle i810, was only available there for glibc2.
I presume it should also compile with libc5.

> David

Sindi